# WEST HERNANDO MIDDLE SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `120081001609`
- **School name**: WEST HERNANDO MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: BROOKSVILLE, FL 34613
- **Address**: 14325 KEN AUSTIN PKWY
- **District**: HERNANDO (LEAID `1200810`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 6–8
- **Coordinates**: 28.56425, -82.48936
- **Phone**: (352)797-7035

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 666
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 38
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 17.5:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 55.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: FL School Grade
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: B
- **Indicators**:
  - overall: B

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (FL School Grade)**: 70.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 52.0% (319 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.2% (14 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.3% (15 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 35.2% (227 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 96
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 24.5%
- **Black/African American**: 2.3%
- **Asian**: 10.1%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 56.8%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 6.0%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 61.6%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 21.7% — 140 students
- **English Learners**: 2.6% — 17 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 55 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 28 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 21 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 13 students
- **Autism**: 12 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 3 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 3 students
- **Orthopedic Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $12,769
- **Federal share**: $1,413
- **State + local share**: $11,356
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $12,301,401
- **Federal share**: 15.1%
- **State share**: 44.9%
- **Local share**: 39.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $5,514,741

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $59,561
- **Poverty rate**: 14.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 22.4%
- **Unemployment**: 2.6%
- **Foreign-born residents**: 6.3%
- **Single-parent households**: 11.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 32.5 miles (STAUFFER CHEMICAL CO TARPON SPRINGS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 5
- **Nearest brownfield**: 5.62 miles (LARRY BRICK PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: HERNANDO CO UTL-WEST
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-03-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **PINE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 1.36% (this school: 2.17%)
- **CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 0.96% (this school: 2.17%)
- **WEEKI WACHEE HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.4 mi away, 0.29% (this school: 2.17%)
- **WINDING WATERS K-8** — 4.6 mi away, 0.73% (this school: 2.17%)
- **CHALLENGER K-8 SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATH** — 4.8 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.17%)

### ela proficiency
- **PINE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 59% (this school: 55%)
- **CHALLENGER K-8 SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATH** — 4.8 mi away, 78% (this school: 55%)
- **CHOCACHATTI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.4 mi away, 73.5% (this school: 55%)
- **NATURE COAST TECHNICAL HIGH** — 5.5 mi away, 58% (this school: 55%)
- **JOHN D. FLOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 6.0 mi away, 55.5% (this school: 55%)

### math proficiency
- **PINE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.2 mi away, 60% (this school: 59%)
- **CHALLENGER K-8 SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATH** — 4.8 mi away, 86% (this school: 59%)
- **POWELL MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 5.1 mi away, 61% (this school: 59%)
- **CHOCACHATTI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.4 mi away, 80% (this school: 59%)
- **HERNANDO ESCHOOL VIRTUAL FRANCHISE** — 6.9 mi away, 73% (this school: 59%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/west-hernando-middle-school-brooksville
- **Performance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/west-hernando-middle-school-brooksville/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/west-hernando-middle-school-brooksville/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/west-hernando-middle-school-brooksville/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/west-hernando-middle-school-brooksville/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/west-hernando-middle-school-brooksville/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/west-hernando-middle-school-brooksville/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/west-hernando-middle-school-brooksville/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/west-hernando-middle-school-brooksville/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.fl.whatschool.ai/en/fl/school/west-hernando-middle-school-brooksville/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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